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  • Slashdot: UnitedHealth Now Has 1,000 AI Applications In Production

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    Source URL: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/05/05/2050232/unitedhealth-now-has-1000-ai-applications-in-production?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: UnitedHealth Now Has 1,000 AI Applications In Production Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: UnitedHealth Group is leveraging 1,000 AI applications across various segments, including insurance and healthcare. A significant portion of these initiatives involves generative AI, highlighting both its potential and the inherent challenges, particularly in…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Max Woolf

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/5/max-woolf/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Max Woolf Feedly Summary: Two things can be true simultaneously: (a) LLM provider cost economics are too negative to return positive ROI to investors, and (b) LLMs are useful for solving problems that are meaningful and high impact, albeit not to the AGI hype that would…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Feed a video to a vision LLM as a sequence of JPEG frames on the CLI (also LLM 0.25)

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/5/llm-video-frames/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Feed a video to a vision LLM as a sequence of JPEG frames on the CLI (also LLM 0.25) Feedly Summary: The new llm-video-frames plugin can turn a video file into a sequence of JPEG frames and feed them directly into a long context vision LLM such…

  • AWS News Blog: AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Nova Premier, Amazon Q Developer, Amazon Q CLI, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Outposts, and more (May 5, 2025)

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-weekly-roundup-amazon-nova-premier-amazon-q-developer-amazon-q-cli-amazon-cloudfront-aws-outposts-and-more-may-5-2025/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Nova Premier, Amazon Q Developer, Amazon Q CLI, Amazon CloudFront, AWS Outposts, and more (May 5, 2025) Feedly Summary: Last week I went to Thailand to attend the AWS Summit Bangkok. It was an energizing and exciting event. We hosted the Developer Lounge,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Arvind Narayanan

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/5/arvind-narayanan/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Arvind Narayanan Feedly Summary: [On using generative AI for work despite the risk of errors:] AI is helpful despite being error-prone if it is faster to verify the output than it is to do the work yourself. For example, if you’re using it to find a…

  • Cloud Blog: Announcing new Vertex AI Prediction Dedicated Endpoints

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/reliable-ai-with-vertex-ai-prediction-dedicated-endpoints/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing new Vertex AI Prediction Dedicated Endpoints Feedly Summary: For AI developers building cutting-edge applications with large model sizes, a reliable foundation is non-negotiable. You need your AI to perform consistently, delivering results without hiccups, even under pressure. This means having dedicated resources that won’t get bogged down…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Dummy’s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/4/llm-sampling/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Dummy’s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling Feedly Summary: Dummy’s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling This is an extremely useful, detailed set of explanations by @AlpinDale covering the various different sampling strategies used by modern LLMs. LLMs return a set of next-token probabilities for every token in their…

  • Slashdot: Man Pleads Guilty To Stealing 1.1 Terabytes of Disney’s Slack Data

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/05/03/0126234/man-pleads-guilty-to-stealing-11-terabytes-of-disneys-slack-data Source: Slashdot Title: Man Pleads Guilty To Stealing 1.1 Terabytes of Disney’s Slack Data Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: A 25-year-old man has admitted to hacking a Disney employee’s computer by using malware disguised as an AI art tool, leading to the theft of significant confidential data. This incident…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-8B

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/2/qwen3-8b/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-8B Feedly Summary: Having tried a few of the Qwen 3 models now my favorite is a bit of a surprise to me: I’m really enjoying Qwen3-8B. I’ve been running prompts through the MLX 4bit quantized version, mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bit. I’m using llm-mlx like this: llm install llm-mlx llm…